Medical Translations

As a former respiratory therapist with 9 years of patient
experience in Boston hospitals, I am very familiar with anatomy
and physiology, hospital practice, treatment modalities, and
medical terminology. Here is a recent sample of my work on a
proprietary blood replacement along with the original
German:

Transfusion of stored donor blood has become
increasingly controversial, and the feasibility of autotransfusion
has been looked at in cases of perfusion of the extremities because
the four bags of stored blood that have hitherto been
required have not always been quickly obtainable. For this
reason, the search has been on for a suitable blood replacement.
Hemoglobin solutions have been seen as an answer to the
problem. On the one hand, hemoglobin transports oxygen, and
on the other, it is universally transfusable because it can be
used independently of blood type, and blood type need not
be determined before use.

A new hemoglobin solution manufactured from bovine blood
(XXXXXX) is now available for transfusion. It is highly purified,
i.e., it contains no DNA, RNA, phospholipids, or endotoxins.
This bovine hemoglobin solution presents us, for the first time,
with an oxygen transporting solution whose efficacy has been
tested in animal studies (YYYYYY 1989) without toxic side effects.
However, before XXXXXX can be used in patients in hyperthermic
extremity perfusion, the ability of XXXXXX to transport
oxygen under these conditions must be demonstrated. Furthermore,
its in vitro stability in an oxygenator under conditions of
hyperthermia must be tested.